At a glance
- Roles
- writer · Scholar
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Review
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Life in time
Place in the story
- ScholarTradition
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Overview
Al-Hasan ibn Bishr ibn Yahya al-Amidi, a man of letters, critic and philologist from Basra. 1
His work
He worked as a secretary in the offices of Basra and Baghdad. He wrote "al-Muwazana", comparing the poetry of Abu Tammam and al-Buhturi. 1
His death
The encyclopaedia gives his death as 371 AH (981 CE). 1
People and things also explored
al-Tanahmir: the Himyaritic speech remnant· Aljamia (aljamiado: Spanish written in Arabic script, and its literature)· Arab naming of children after plants· The wise sayings attributed to Ali· Poetry attributed to Ali ibn Abi Talib· The delegation of Banu Tamim and the boasting contest· Ka'b ibn Zuhayr's pardon and recitation of Banat Su'ad· Khuza'a's appeal to Medina
Sources
- Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Al-Amidi, Abu al-Qasim al-Hasan ibn Bishr”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-amidi-al-hasan-ibn-bishr/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.